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"It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned."
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"No one longs to live more than someone growing old."
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"I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary."
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"The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor."
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"Every old poem is sacred."
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"I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still."
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"There's the young Jon Voight and the old Jon Voight."
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"I'm too old to do things by half."
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"We owned a bearded collie for many years. Sophie. She was old, and she died last year."
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"When I was 14 years old, I decided I could cook. It was either that or puberty."
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"For TV I don't think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior because of the intimacy of the character based on David Chase's brilliant writing."
Character
"I went on tour in the play H.M.S. Pinafore."
Play
"I think Pirandello had something to say to people about what truth really is."
Truth
"When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing."
Old
"I tried to become a family man. I got married, but it didn't work out. After 22 months we got an annulment. Then I married an Italian girl, which resulted in an immediate annulment. I had two annulments by the time I was 23."
Family
"The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language."
Comedy
"The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic."
Anger
"I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them."
Mother
"I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and had three children."
Children
"I've always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It's a great role. I think the idealism of the man shows that hope that we have in the human breast to achieve something."
Hope
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